Donald Trump’s new charges include conspiracy to defraud the US government, violet rights and obstructing official proceedings (Picture: Getty/Reuters)
Donald Trump has released a rambling rant comparing his new charges to the persecution of Jewish people in Nazi Germany.
The former US president was hit with fresh criminal charges in relation to his efforts to overturn the 2020 election yesterday.
These include conspiracy to defraud the US government, violet rights and obstruct official proceedings.
This means he will now be arrested by the FBI as part of their investigation into the January 6 Capitol Riots.
Responding to these new charges, Trump’s team put out a statement comparing his treatment to that of a Jew living in Germany during the Third Reich.
The unhinged rant read: ‘The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s, the former Soviet Union, and other authoritarian, dictatorial regimes.
‘President Trump has always followed the law and the Constitution, with advice from many highly accomplished attorneys.’
The indictment, which was handed down by a grand jury yesterday, said Trump was ‘determined to stay in power’ and ‘spread lies’ about voter fraud to ‘change electoral votes’.
Trump will now be arrested by the FBI as part of their investigation into the January 6 Capitol Riots (Picture: Saul Loeb/AFP)
‘These claims were false, and the defendant knew they were false,’ it states.
He was charged with: one count of conspiracy to defraud the US government, one count of conspiracy to violate rights, one count of obstructing an official proceeding and one count of conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding.
The indictment also charges six unnamed co-conspirators, one of which can be easily identified are Trump’s former personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani.
Trump on Tuesday announced he expected to be indicted that same day in special counsel Jack Smith’s probe on the January 6 Capitol riot and efforts to overturn the election.
‘I hear that Deranged Jack Smith, in order to interfere with the Presidential Election of 2024, will be putting out yet another Fake Indictment of your favorite President, me, at 5:00 P.M,’ Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform.
The indictment said Trump was ‘determined to stay in power’ and ‘spread lies’ about voter fraud (Picture: Reuters)
Smith provided brief remarks after unveiling the indictment.
‘The attack on our nation’s Capitol on Jan 6, 2021, was an unprecedented assault on the seat of American democracy,’ stated Smith.
‘As described in the indictment, it was fueled by lies. Lies by the defendant targeted at obstructing a bedrock function of the US government: The nation’s process of collecting, counting and certifying the results of the presidential election.’
Smith’s office in June indicted Trump over his alleged mishandling of classified documents he took from the White House to his Mar-a-Lago home. As with the classified documents case, Smith said he will seek a ‘speedy trial’.
The first indictment against Trump came in April, when the Manhattan district attorney criminally charged him in its investigation into a hush payment to a porn star.
Trump is scheduled to appear in court on Thursday before federal magistrate Judge Tanya Chutkan – an appointee of ex-President Barack Obama – in Washington, DC.
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‘The lawlessness of these persecutions of President Trump and his supporters is reminiscent of Nazi Germany in the 1930s.’